Commendations:-

"This is a most useful publication and will be of tremendous
value to all students of Gandhi and of modern Indian history."

- Prof. Bimal Prasad,Chairman, National Gandhi Museum, and
author of "The Origins of Indian Foreign Policy: The Indian National Congress
and World Affairs, 1885-1947", of "Gandhi, Nehru and J.P.: Studies in
Leadership", etc.

"This very carefully prepared work includes a lavish supply of
notes and references, and should serve as an important work of reference for all
those interested in studying Mahatma Gandhi's life and philosophy. I for one
will spend a lot of time with it. It provides fertile material for scholars who
may wish to write a critical appreciation of the range and scope of the books
read by Gandhiji."

"Biographers of Mahatma Gandhi have often wished to know what
books he read and when. A helpful list of 253 of them was made by Dharma Vir
(Librarian at the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi) and published in 1965.
Ananda Pandiri expanded the number to 354 in his excellent 'Comprehensive,
Annotated Bibliography on Mahatma Gandhi' (1995). And now Prof. Mark Lindley and
Shri Kirit Bhavsar have added more than 100 titles in a work which includes not
only the evidence that Gandhi read or is likely to have read each book in
question, but also citations of his opinions of them and, in an appendix, a list
of some 1200 of the books that he donated to the Ahmedabad Municipal Library.
The result is a splendid resource not only for Gandhi scholars but also for
people who are just curious about the 'Father of the Nation.' They may well feel
that they are being taken inside the mind of the Mahatma."